Antonio slams the phone down. 'Dumb bitch! No one hangs up on me! He picks up the phone and then slams it down again. 'There! I hung up on you! Bitches back in merry ole Italy were nothing like these hos today.'

He texts her back. YOU FIND MY ESME AND I WILL HELP YOU

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"I don't have time for this.." Ana texts back. It was you who asked for my help. Where did you send her? Get her back here now, and you can have what you want."

Rhaul is coming for you....get in the Fucking car!

A car putters outside and Antonio is waved inside. The car motors to whereve she had designated their meeting to be.

It arrives at it's destination.

Antonio tried to text Esme to meet him when he looks up at the moon, and an eclipse was starting to form. This was not a good sign.

"GODDAMMIT, MORRELLE! I KNOW THIS IS ALL YOUR DOING! EVEN IN DEATH YOU STILL FUCK THINGS UP ON EARTH!" He yells up at the Heavens with fists balled up.

Anabella tucks Midnight in as Rhaul walks up the steps. "Watch her! Protect her with your life!" Anabella barks.

She rushes down the stairs to see the eclipse starting, "shit" She meets Antonio on the cobblestone street. "Did you reach Esme. I need her!"

Somewhere in Egypt

As soon as he heard the meassge Esme (stop) URGENT (stop), he had his tent and artifacts gathered up for the museum exhibition next month, and orders a jeep to take him to his hotel room in order to pack.

A few hours pass when he is taken to the Egyptian Airport. He stops the vehicle he is riding in and gets out. He looks up at the moon high above, and an eclipse that is forming.

"Damn, Morrelle. I know this your doing." he mumbles to himself. He jumps back in and orders them to the airport asap. "We have no time to waste."

Esme's phone buzzes somewhere in the bottom of the ocean, then dies.

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Spanish Embassy

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Esme has already hung up the phone and goes to her door. She opens it, and peeks out. Noone was there. Good. She left her clothes in the room, and kept the ones they gave her. Hopefully her clothes in her bag would dry quickly. That and the Necronomicon was damp. Soon she'd have to get to a proper hotel room. She snuck out of the room and down the hall she had entered from. Hopefully nobody was going to find her. She needed to know this place inside and out if there was going to be any issues.

War in Hell

Anything and everything was now at war with each other. Chaos on top on chaos, with no single entity in control or orchestrating events.

Morrelle saw to that. No one entity could do it alone, but careful study of this Plane of Existence was easy to figure out once you were given the keys - verbal keys, hints, and such.

No, Morrelle hasn't destroyed Hell itself, but ruptured a small part of it that is sending ripples throughout the (7) planes. And he knew he was also a dead man because of it. Pinhead, and all the others would come for him.

So he made a deal with Leviathan, and now war rages in Hell, and will soon spill onto Earth.

Many could see the cracks forming, and various places around the world will soon be invaded by "every conceiveable monstrosity known to mankind."

Anabella pushes Antonio out of the way...."You're useless. Esme told me that about you!" Anabella closes her eyes and tries to remember how to communicate telepathically. A trick Morgan taught her long ago. "Esme, if you can hear me, we are in Venice...All hell is about to break loose, you gotta get to Venice" Anabella concentrated as hard as she could. Panic started to ensue outside.

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Esme pauses in the hallways. "Ana... I can hear you. I'm stuck in the embassy in Spain where Antonio left me. He pretty much locked me up here. If I leave they'll hunt me down. Antonio has lost his mind. I wouldn't give him a child, and he tried to get me killed. My plane crashed and Russian pirates picked me up, and I was going to be ransomed... when I escaped, Antonio was waiting for me. He went off when I said I was not having a child. Please Ana.. don't listen to him. He's power hungry! All I want is Morelle's freedom and his safety, even if it's with you!" She looked around the corners again, trying to make sure everything was secure.

Anabella hears Esma. She turns to Antonio smaking him in the face "LIAR!" she screams out. You had her locked up all along! In Spain?" Anabella thrusts forward and pulls a gun. You.....are a dead vampire.....

I will take you to hell with me! BEG me for your unlife!

The sound of boots and a cane hitting the ground as he walks is enough to get anyone's attention. A very distinquished man, eloquently dressed, perfectly manicured nails and go-tee, stands behind Anbella.

He taps her on her sholulder to get her attention.

Antonio bows in respect, or was he grovelling?

"I would ill advise doing that young miss. I am his sire, Don Leonardo Giovanni. And I am here to fix what 'a certain member of the family' has destroyed. Don Morrelle Giovanni, he lives?"

"Ana... what's going on? I will try to escape here...." Seeing noone around, she runs at full tilt out of the the embassy, and hails the first cab she can. She tells the cabbie to take her to the cemetery. "I hope I can do this." Once she's there, she looks around. Noone in sight. Good. She pays the driver and gets to the back on the cemetery, opening her bag and taking out an athame. She draws a circle in the dirt, and calls her power to her. "Goddess... take me to Anabella. Please.. I offer a blood sacrifice. I offer my fire, however you see fit to take it." With that, she cuts her hand with the athame, letting the blood well around her in the cut circle. She clasps Morelle's necklace and focuses her energy on Anabella.

Light wraps around the circle, enveloping her, and her vision blacks.

She awakens on a grimy old street.

Anabella puts the gun down. "He lives, in another rhealm. " Anabella sees Esme not far from them. She rushes too her. "Esme, thank the gods!" She helps Esme to her feet. They walk back to Don Leonardo and Antonio.

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Esme does not look at Leonardo. Her hair has gone black, and alot of the brightness has left her. She held onto Ana, as if for dear life. Blood dripped from her right hand. "You'd be surprised the things I give up to do what I have to." She looks to Antonio. "Go fuck yourself, you son of a bitch. Never underestimate a TRUE Giovanni woman!" She finally looks to Leonardo. "Thank you for coming so quickly. I had a deal to make with you. My brother is in hell right now though.. so this may take some explaining. Please be patient with me."

"I know where he is, child. I have always known. I knew this time would come, as I have always said many centuries ago about his fetish with the black arts. The Lament Box is not for this time, or any time."

Don Leonardo moves a few feet away and looks upward, to the eclipsed moon. "He was one of my best students, until........" You could see disappointment in his expression. He turns to face all of them. "I have no invested interest in him anymore, but I also cannot allow him to use what he has learned from me, to change what should not be changed. He is affecting time as well. He must be stopped."